A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to limit the use of the common name "catfish" in the market of fish.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to limit the name 'catfish' to fish classified within the family Ictalariidae for purposes of the misbranded food requirements.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1494 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1494

 To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to limit the use of 
         the common name ``catfish'' in the marketing of fish.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 3, 2001

 Mrs. Lincoln (for herself, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Breaux, Ms. 
  Landrieu, Mr. Hutchinson, and Mr. Cochran) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to limit the use of 
         the common name ``catfish'' in the marketing of fish.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON THE USE OF THE COMMON NAME ``CATFISH'' IN THE 
              MARKETING OF FISH.

    Chapter IV of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is amended 
by inserting after section 403C (21 U.S.C. 343-3) the following:

``SEC. 403D. LIMITATION ON THE USE OF THE COMMON NAME `CATFISH' IN THE 
              MARKETING OF FISH.

    ``For the purposes of section 403, the name `catfish' or any name 
that includes the word `catfish' shall be used only in reference to a 
fish of the family Ictalariidae.''.
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